Consensus as Democracy in Africa (African Humanities)

Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.

• | Author: Matolino, Bernard
• | Publisher: NISC (Pty) Ltd
• | Publication Date: Dec 28, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1920033319
• | ISBN-13: 9781920033316